Baby's First Christmas Then and Now

I thought this was cute - We tried to get a picture of Wesley in the Baby's First Christmas Hat - But like everything else we are running a little behind this time around. I hate to say everyone was right that you don't have as many pictures of the second one, you don't get their baby books done...etc. but so far it has rang true with us - Wesley's baby book is started but it is not where near being up to date and we may have as many pictures of Wesley (thanks to Mom and Wendy) but everytime we try and recreate a picture we loved of Bradley it seems we are a few months behind the age that Bradley was a the time - This was close as far as recreating the exact picture. Let's see Bradley's was taken in October (yeah we were on the ball then) so he was right at 4 months old and Wesley's was just taken the other day so his is about 6 1/2 months old. Anyway they are cute!

My Entire Family Got Elfed

OK They are going to kill me but My entire family has been elfed. Check them out:

Mom and Dad http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1444059883

Wendy and Jim http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1407742806

Nicki and Nick http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1474423629

They are all very funny!!

We've been Elfed

We've been elfed!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1354504357

Wesley's Baptism

Wesley was baptized on December 9, 2007. We had been putting it off because we hadn't been attending church regularly since Wesley is way more high maintenance than Bradley ever was. He is just not very content. Well, he has finally started being a much happier much more content child so we went ahead and scheduled it. It was a busy day - we went to church, went to see Santa, which we stood in line for over an hour, then home to a house full of family for dinner. It was nice but exhausting. Overall I was very proud of both of my boys they were both so good the entire day. Here are a few shots - I have tried not to post too many pics but it is hard to do when you have Wendy and Mom snapping pictures right and left and all are so good. Everyone have a Very Merry Christmas if I don't post again before then.

Dad, Mom, and I joined the church also. Since Jeremy, Bradley, and Wesley were all baptized there they are automatically members so Paster said he wanted the rest of the family to join so we did.

Christmas Photo Shoot

Wendy came down the other day to try and get pictures of the kids for Christmas - the key word here was try. Bradley wasn't very cooperative and Wesley just kinda sat there - he didn't smile much. I think the major problem was it was HOT - They had sweaters on and we had the fire going - just for the picture - and it was quite warm outside too - so it wasn't like we needed the fire. Anyway we are going to try again soon, but I thought you all might like to see some of them anyway.

Wesley's Accomplishments Part 2

Let's see - Wesley cut two teeth on Sunday - they have been trying to come thru and they finally did. He cut the two bottom teeth at the same time. POOR GUY! Then on Tuesday I went to pick him up at mom's and she was like watch this - He sat up on his own. She said he did it before she had even realized she had let go of him. He was watching a little car toy that Bradley was playing with in the floor and before she even realized she let go to pick something up and he just sat there mezmorized. I will post pictures as soon as mom emails them to me. My Baby is growing up so fast. :-(

This is one I took later that evening but he had nothing distracting him so he kept falling over, but I thought it was still cute.

Happy Halloween

We made it out on Tuesday October 30, 2007 for Trick or Treating - Yeah I know most of you all are asking "Why not October 31st?" Well around here for some reason we never have trick or treat on October 31st. I guess they think less destruction will go on if it isn't on the actual day. WHATEVER!!!

But anyway, I had one spiderman who would not keep his mask on - he said no one would know who he was if he had his mask on,

and I had one Tigger.

Wesley didn't make it very far until he decided to take a little "Cat Nap" him being Tigger and all.

We went around our neighborhood - which was the perfect size for a three year old. There is about 30 houses I would say. It took us about an hour and he filled up his little spiderman bucket so he was happy.

Here is Bradley with our neighbors Chase (left) and Nicholas (center), don't they look like they could get into some trouble. :-)

I wanted to take a moment to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Nicholas Barry who turned three this past weekend. And looking at the calendar right now I see I missed his mothers Birthday yesterday - Sorry Katie. I only look at calendars on the weekdays - when I am at work. So This is a Happy Belated Birthday to Both. The weekends are not long enough to do all that needs to be done - and spending time with the kids takes priority. I have really been struggling with that lately. Bradley falls asleep in the car every evening and sleeps till morning so I don't get to spend time with him during the week at all it seems - and it just seems so unfair to cram 7 days worth of time into Saturday and Sunday. Plus if we make it to church which is rare these days - I feel like putting him in Jr. Church (which I know is good for him) takes away even more of my time with him. The house takes a back burner - if it gets cleaned it is after they are in bed and that means I am up until midnight or later - not fun when you are already exhausted. I feel like my life is constantly on fast forward - not to mention I can't get anywhere on time these days. Anyway - sorry about my little rant - I just can't find enough time to do it all. Until our next big event . . .